Past and present Senate candidates from Wyoming: on Immigration


Michael Enzi: Abandon comprehensive reform; focus on guest workers

Candidates for the U.S. Senate tangled over a discussion of immigration. The candidates differed on the end goals of immigration reform. Incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi said the issue stems from comprehensive reform. "We need to talk about a guest worker program in our country," Enzi said. "Right now, we bring them to our country, train them in our colleges, and then we send them back home. The problem with immigration is we keep trying to get it done comprehensively."

Enzi said that in the last attempt at comprehensive reform, six years ago, President Barack Obama led the charge to defeat that reform in his role as an Illinois senator. He said that ultimately the act fell on a dispute over a guest worker program.

Source: Casper Star-Tribune on 2014 Wyoming Senate race Aug 14, 2014

Charlie Hardy: Current deportation policy wastes money & does no real good

Hardy said the immigration policies are both foolish and cruel. He has sat through hearings where Mexican citizens were brought before a judge in groups, quickly sentenced and sent back to their country, where no jobs or opportunities awaited them. Incarcerating people and then sending them back to Mexico and other nations wastes money and does no real good, Hardy said.
Source: Powell Tribune coverage of 2014 Wyoming Senate race Mar 18, 2014

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Candidates and political leaders on Immigration:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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